Samba
What annual festival features samba music and dance?
a. Halloween
b. Day of the Dead
c. Woodstock
d. Carnival
carnival
Are the uilleann pipes meant to be played indoors or outdoors?
indoors
What is the most important instrument in the music of the Plains Indians?
a. Rattle
b. Flute
c. Drum
d. Guitar
Which of these is a traditional West African instrument?
a. Mandolin
b. Sitar
c. Tamborine
d. Kora
Kora
True or false: taiko was sometimes used in battle?
True
What city is most closely associated with samba?
a. Santiago, Chile
b. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
c. Buenos Aires, Brazil
d. Bogota, Colombia
Rio de Janeiro
What part of the uilleann pipes is used to play the melody?
a. regulator
b. drone
c. chanter
d. bag
chanter
What cause can be attributed to most of the Native American deaths in colonial times?
a. Disease
b. War with Europeans
c. War with other tribes
d. Famine
Disease
What word was used to describe a professional musician in West Africa?
a. Bantu
b. Jali
c. Mbale
d. Moganda
Jali
What is the word for the stance used in taiko?
a. Ki
b. Oka
c. Yama
d. Kamae
Kamae
What is a samba band called?
a. bateria
b. repinique
c. surdo
d. caixa
bateria
Irish music is richest in what element?
a. melody
b. harmony
c. rhythm
melody
What does the drum beat often symbolize?
a. The march of war
b. The march of time
c. The heartbeat of mother earth
d. The path of the warrior
c. The heartbeat of mother earth
What was a main purpose of the West African music that we studied?
a. To serve as a means of recording and passing on stories and history.
b. To communicate over long distances.
c. To motivate soldiers during battle.
a. To serve as a means of recording and passing on stories and history.
What are the taiko sticks called?
a. Bachi
b. Sutikku
c. Kuchi Showa
d. Don
Bachi
What are the largest samba drums called?
a. repinique
b. caixa
c. surdo
d. agogo
surdo
What event in the mid-1800’s brought a wave of Irish immigrants to Boston?
Great Famine (Great Potato Famine)
Did Europeans introduce horses to the Native Americans, or did Native Americans introduce horses to the Europeans?
Europeans introduced horses to the Native Americans.
How would you describe the instrument that we listened to?
a. Similar to a flute
b. Similar to a xylophone.
c. Similar to a trumpet but wooden and without valves.
d. Similar to a harp but with two sets of strings
d. Similar to a harp but with two sets of strings
Which of these instruments are used in gamelan music?
a. Bagpipes
b. Horns
c. Metallophones
d. Reed instruments
Metallophones
What is the most famous type of samba?
a. batucada
d. reco-reco
c. tambourim
d. mas que nada
batucada
How would you describe the phrase structure of traditional Irish music?
a. Multiple sections with new material added in each section.
b. Asymetrical phrase lengths with odd numbers of beats per measure.
c. Melodies that start high and work their way down.
d. Symetrical phrase lengths with even numbers of beats per measure.
d. Symetrical phrase lengths with even numbers of beats per measure.
a. Vocal melodies start high and work their way down.
b. Vocal melodies start low and work their way up.
c. Vocal melodies have an arch contour; up then down.
d. The range of vocal melodies is usually limited to just a few notes.
a. Vocal melodies start high and work their way down.
What type of scale was used in the music we listened to?
a. Minor
b. Chromatic
c. Major
d. Pentatonic
Major
Which of these statements is true?
a. Gamelan is the traditional music of India
b. The instruments in a gamelan can never be exchanged with instruments outside of the set.
c. Gamelan is sacred and can only be performed by select musicians.
d. Gamelan is associated with the Indonesian peasant class.
b. The instruments in a gamelan can never be exchanged with instruments outside of the set.